[V8] V8 steam engine

[Dave Saad]

Have you had a coolant leak or spilled coolant on the front of the motor?
I had that noise and tried lots of expensive fixes but it ended up being the pivot for the timing belt tensioner getting sticky - caused I think by dried coolant.
You can probably see it by removing the right timing cover and running the motor.  Maybe even a small squirt of WD40 on the pivot would temporarily fix it and confirm the problem.
The cure is just to regrease the pivot, but unfortunately that means removing the whole belt.

Dave


On Jan 2, 2011, at 12:56 PM, Mark Kalbskopf wrote:

> OK, 210K miles on the car and the timing belt, idler bearings etc were  
> last replaced at 160K.
> For some time I've had a noise coming from the timing belt area, upper  
> left when I face the engine from the front.
> It sounded like a roller bearing or something. Well, I've been  
> ignoring it until now, but its beginning to sound like a steam engine  
> with a regular chugging and various rough /grinding noises.
> Is this the idler pulley and adjusting rollers going bad, or does  
> whatever the camshaft spins in, go bad?
> 
> (And I was trying so hard to get the car through until the end of her  
> last year at college!)
> 
> Anyone want to buy a V8 steam engine?
> 
> Mark.
> 
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